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Whacking

noun

The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows. Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing.

adjective

(British informal) enormous. "A whacking lie"

adverb

Extremely.

Whack

verb

(past & past part. whacked; pres. part. whacking)

Hit hard. Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop.

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"Whacking" Quotes from Famous Books

... starting as long as possible, till darkness was approaching, that we might have a better chance of escaping. At last we could delay no longer, so riding up side by side to the natives we begged them to start us fairly, when off we set digging nor spurs into our horses' flanks and whacking the unfortunate beasts with our whips. The tree, towards which we were directing our course, was fully half a mile off, and as the border of the wood was in shadow, we hoped that we should be able to get into it, and pass through on the other side before our flight was discovered. ...

— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston

... of the quarterdeck, all in their golden uniforms, waiting for the end as if 'twas King George they expected. There was no way to help, for she lay right beyond cast of line, though our folk tried it fifty times. And beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an' between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer. There [she says]—hark 'ee now—there he goes agen! But you won't hear no cheering any more, for few are left to cheer, ...

— The Roll-Call Of The Reef • A. T. Quiller-Couch (AKA "Q.")

... boys of somewhere round eighteen years of age setting forth from the little home town of Kansas City, nestling at the confluence of the Missouri and the Kaw. A year later Cal Warren was whacking bulls on the Santa Fe Trail while the other, William Harris, was holding the reins over four plunging horses as he tooled a lumbering Concord stage over the trail from Omaha to the ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... Ingoldsby Bray, "What news? What news? Come tell to me! What news? what news, thou little Foot-page?— I've been whacking the foe till it seems an age Since I was in Ingoldsby Hall so free! What news? what news from Ingoldsby Hall? Come tell me now, ...

— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various

... approach him and so he got upon his feet and examined them curiously, with a mischievous smile upon his face. Then he deliberately kicked the tiger's head with his foot and catching up a fallen branch of a tree he went to the wolf and gave it a good whacking. Both the beasts were furious at such treatment ...

— Glinda of Oz • L. Frank Baum

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